Senator Mitt Romney has been skewered and roasted by the right wing in America especially the right wing media for his Op-Ed Article in the Washington Post criticizing President Trump they and the entirety of the Republican Party do a disservice to themselves and the country not heeding his wisdom. What Senator Romney essentially was saying was that President Trump often displays bad character which when it happens he is neither supporting nor following the President on these wrongful paths. I am going to characterize Senator Romney's point in different terms and submit that it is a continual flaw in Donald Trump's Presidency which he needs to stop because it is hurting him and the country. What President Trump does is he chooses a "clever" perspective about things instead of a "good" perspective he believes he can pursue these side or back doors to achieve his desired ends and ignores fundamental elements of a good perspective, America sees it in the current government ShutDown. Obviously, the issue on the shutdown is the wall, the southern border wall. A good perspective would recognize that to the Democrats and many Independents the Wall is considered a major Republican policy agenda it is a major Republican plank in their Party platform if they get it in the 2020 election cycle Republicans are going to wave around that fact like a banner claiming promise made/ promise kept to their voter base. So if that is what this Republican President is doing with the Wall then he has to offer something big to the Democrats one of their major policy agenda's one of their major Party's planks, like legalization of Childhood arrivals without visas. No President Trump ignores this good perspective, this reality, he thinks he can just back door this goal by claiming that all of a sudden this wall is needed or the country won't be secure with the same immigration problem we have had for past twenty years. He believes he can back door the goad by trying to paint the Democrats as for open borders when most Democrats have a legislative voting record to the contrary. He repeatedly tries these attempts at clever tactics which are just amateurish behavior! President Trump's perspective about the wall is not good and until he gets his perspective good he is going to be at least waist high in failure. Let's say President Trump gets his $5 billion for a wall the truth is that most of the barrier will actually be a fence because they will be steel slat barriers to enable border patrol agents to see through; high barriers that will need to be rebuilt in fifteen to twenty years do to rust, so a big waste of money will have occurred. Lets also say that out of arrogance so he can claim in the 2020 election cycle he built the wall President Trump builds a hundred miles of concrete wall what will transpire, future Presidential administration will knock it down because it obstructs the Border Patrol from doing its job of surveilling people trying to illegally enter the United States; so what President Trump will have created is an axiom in America culture called the "Trump Wall" meaning an imprudent expensive project that later responsible authority will dismantle or remove!
You are confusing good character with grovelling and subservience. I want a president with strong character, not nicey-nicey "good" character.
Willard had his tryouts and he was cut many times. He's but a sore loser trying to drag down a winner. Sour grapes.
Romney was not a good presidential candidate - but that doesn't mean that he shouldn't be allowed to share his views on a current president. He may make a great senator - but again, that doesn't translate to being a great president. We need all kinds of voices and opinions in government today - not just a party line.
